On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 21:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:13:48PM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > > I don't know enough about Fedora installation to know what, > > if any, processor related optimizations are made in the install > > instead of boot time. > > This is perfectly fine and will work, with one big exception -- by default, > we only make an initrd that fits the initial system, which means you might > not have all of the drivers you need. You can either reconfigure dracut to > generate a generic initramfs, or you can simply boot into the rescue image > that's generated on install and repair from there. > > There's no install-time tuning and it's a general ideal for the system to be > as "stateless" as possible, because this makes administration much easier. > > > All of this becomes very important with virtualization, where it's very > common to migrate systems to not-identical virtual hardware. In practice, though, even the 'non-portable' initramfs is _reasonably_ portable across typical modern PC hardware, since a lot of stuff uses generic drivers nowadays. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
